weekday

English

Etymology

From Middle English weke-dai, wikdai, wokdai, wokedai, wockedai, woukedai, wukedaȝȝ, equivalent to week +‎ day. Compare West Frisian wikedei (“weekday”), Dutch weekdag (“weekday”), German Wochentag (“weekday”), Danish ugedag (“weekday”), Swedish veckodag (“weekday”), Norwegian ukedag (“weekday”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

weekday (plural weekdays)

1. A day of the week except those which form the weekend; that is:
   1. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, but not Saturday or Sunday.
   2. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, or Saturday, but not Sunday. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
   3. (Judaism) Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, but not Saturday.
   4. (Persian) Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, but not Friday.

Synonyms

• workday
• working day
• (day on which work is done in legal and official usage): business day

Translations

weekday

• Basque: astegun (eu)
• Catalan: dia feiner, dia laborable
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 平日 (zh) (píngrì), 平常日 (zh) (píngchángrì), 周日 (zh) (zhōurì)

• Danish: almindelig ugedag, hverdag (da) c
• Dutch: werkdag (nl) m, weekdag (nl) m
• Erzya: такойчи (takojči)
• Esperanto: labortago
• Finnish: arkipäivä
• French: jour de la semaine (fr) m, jour ouvré (fr) m
• German: Wochentag (de) m, Werktag (de) m
• Greek: καθημερινή (el) f (kathimeriní)
• Hawaiian: lā noa
• Hebrew: יוֹם חֹל‏‎ (he) m (yom ḥol)
• Hungarian: hétköznap (hu)
• Icelandic: vikudagur (is) m
• Indonesian: hari biasa
• Irish: lá den tseachtain m

• Italian: giorno feriale m
• Japanese: 平日 (ja) (heijitsu), ウィークデー (wīkudē), 週日 (ja) (しゅうじつ, shūjitsu)
• Korean: 평일 (ko) (pyeongil) (平日 (ko))
• Latin: feria
• Luxembourgish: Wochendag m
• Macedonian: делник m (délnik)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hverdag (no) m, virkedag m

  Nynorsk: kvardag m, vyrkedag m, yrkedag m

• Ojibwe: anokii-giizhigad
• Persian: روز هفته‏‎
• Polish: dzień roboczy m inan
• Portuguese: dia de semana m
• Romanian: zi a săptămânii f, zi lucrătoare f
• Russian: рабо́чий день m (rabóčij denʹ), бу́дний день m (búdnij denʹ), бу́дни (ru) pl (búdni)
• Spanish: día de semana m
• Swedish: vardag (sv) c
• Welsh: dydd o'r wythnos m

Related terms

• week
• weeknight

References

• American Heritage Dictionary
• “weekday” in the Collins English Dictionary, Glasgow: HarperCollins Publishers.
• “weekday” in the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–.